Animating Capture: A Microhistory of Elephant Mobility

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/735516" target="_blank" >https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/735516</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/735516" target="_blank" >10.1086/735516</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Animating Capture: A Microhistory of Elephant Mobility
Original language description
While zoos are typically defined as spaces of confinement, this article explores how mobility infrastructures sustained animal captivity at the turn of the twentieth century. Building on the animal biography method, I focus on the life story of one particular Asian elephant as a microhistory of animal mobility under captivity. Tracing the trajectories of trade and exchange in animals highlights the role of circuses in both mobilizing the affective registers of animal performance and supplying zoos with specimens. This article emphasizes the tension between mobility and constraint in the circulation of knowledge about elephants, as well as the role of affect in making individual animals visible through history.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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